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Cyber Security News From Around The World

Latest news as of 7/18/2025, 2:57:29 AM

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

Globe Life data breach may impact an additional 850,000 clients

Insurance giant Globe Life finished the investigation into the data breach it suffered last June and says that the incident may have impacted an additional 850,000 customers. [...]

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

Mizuno USA says hackers stayed in its network for two months

​Mizuno USA, a subsidiary of Mizuno Corporation, one of the world's largest sporting goods manufacturers, confirmed in data breach notification letters that unknown attackers stole files from its network between August and October 2024. [...]

Dark Reading

6 months ago

Can AI & the Cyber Trust Mark Rebuild Endpoint Confidence?

The Cyber Trust Mark has the potential to change how we define and measure security at the endpoint level. But potential isn't enough.

The Hacker News

6 months ago

CISA and FDA Warn of Critical Backdoor in Contec CMS8000 Patient Monitors

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts about the presence of hidden functionality in Contec CMS8000 patient monitors and Epsimed MN-120 patient monitors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0626, carries a CVSS v4 score of 7.7 on a scale of 10.0. The flaw, alongside two other issues, was reported to CISA

The Register

6 months ago

The Big Short on Cybersecurity

How to communicate risk to executives Have you ever watched ? It's one of my all-time favorite movies, not just for the story but for how it handles complexity.… Partner Content

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

US healthcare provider data breach impacts 1 million patients

Community Health Center (CHC), a leading Connecticut healthcare provider, is notifying over 1 million patients that their personal and health information was stolen in an October breach. [...]

Bleeping Computer

6 months ago

Police dismantles HeartSender cybercrime marketplace network

​Law enforcement authorities in the United States and the Netherlands have seized 39 domains and associated servers used by the HeartSender phishing gang operating out of Pakistan. [...]

The Hacker News

6 months ago

Google Bans 158,000 Malicious Android App Developer Accounts in 2024

Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in 2024 and banned more than 158,000 bad developer accounts that attempted to publish such harmful apps. The tech giant also noted it prevented 1.3 million apps from getting excessive or unnecessary access to sensitive user data during the time period by working with

The Hacker News

6 months ago

Italy Bans Chinese DeepSeek AI Over Data Privacy and Ethical Concerns

Italy's data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek's service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users' personal data. The development comes days after the authority, the Garante, sent a series of questions to DeepSeek, asking about its data handling practices and where it obtained its training data. In particular, it wanted

The Hacker News

6 months ago

Top 5 AI-Powered Social Engineering Attacks

Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘spray and pray’ password guessing. No scouring systems for unpatched software. Instead, it simply relies on manipulating emotions such as trust, fear, and respect for authority, usually with the goal of gaining access to sensitive information or protected systems.